Association between Patient Race and Ethnicity and Use of Invasive Ventilation in the United States of America.
Fred M AbdelmalekFederico AngrimanJulie MooreKuan LiuLisa BurryLaleh Seyyed-KalantariSangeeta MehtaJudy GichoyaLeo Anthony CeliGeorge TomlinsonMichael FralickChristopher J YarnellPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2023)
Asian, Black, and Hispanic patients had lower rates of invasive ventilation than white patients. These decreases did not mediate harm for the average patient, but we could not rule out harm for patients with more severe hypoxemia.